In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who isn't sure how to handle a friend who is degrading ...

DEAR EYES: Well, first the part you already know: even the best of neighbors are unlikely to make changes to their property ...

Dear Friend: Ask yourself what you need from this friendship, without the asterisk of what Bella can provide. I wonder if, in the past, you pushed down your own needs too many times, in deference to ...

However, since you have a good relationship with them, you can bring it up in casual conversation without making an ask. You ...

Twenty years ago, I married a man who took care of me and my kids. He tells me he loves me, brings me flowers and supports me ...

After 35 years of friendship, the exhausted letter writer’s has “nothing left to offer.” Dear Eric: “Bella” and I met more ...

I am not asking to go to the moon; I am simply asking for some physical TLC. I have asked, cried, you name it.

Dear Eric: I often need help with tech support. When I call, I sometimes get a representative with a strong accent that I can ...

Most of their interests are ones done alone and, when they looked into senior centers, the things they had were all craft stuff that they have no interest in learning.

Dear Eric: We have a condo at the beach that has a pool. There is a couple that we know through other people that we are not friendly with, and they have a condo in another building without a pool.

The boundary of a person’s home is not a hard one to respect and you shouldn’t have to assert it so forcefully. Declining to ...

I’m a woman who has never really had much in common with other women. And, there’s a long list of things I have no interest ...